q13

[dubdobdee]

q13.

i: What does the Bard credit with subtlety?
ii: Where does Kitchener have an Elephantine companion?
iii: Where did pigeon-shooting lead to inappropriate British reprisals?
iv: Where did Mrs Doyle narrowly escape death from a falling boulder?
v: Where was the P&O liner Mongolia expected at 11am on Wednesday 9 October?
vi: Where did the French lieutenant find the trilingual text which provided the key to understanding the ancient scripts?
vii:For what was Rigoletto substituted for the opening of the Opera House?
viii: Which heir presumptive drowned when his train fell into the river?
ix: Where did Wüstenfuchs’s substitute suffer a fatal heart attack?
x: Where did Giocante stand on the burning deck?

INCOMPLETE: we need ii, vi and ix!

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

iv: references a father ted ep presumably
vi: references the rosetta stone -- not sure where found (unless "rosetta")

iii: immediately made me think of the silly events that inspired the clash song "guns on the roof" -- tho i don't think the french were involved and i wd be a bit startled if the clash were part of an answer to a KW question

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

is v) Willy Fogg (call him by his name) arriving in Liverpool?

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

Wüstenfuchs means 'Desert Fox'.

Are all of these to do with North Africa - perhaps even in Egypt? Because I think vii is Verdi's Aida, and x might be about the Battle of the Nile. i might be a line from Antony and Cleopatra.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

v. guessing this is Alexandria and that it never got there ftb sunk? by the blasted hun?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

(googly woogly)

iii. seems to be Dinshaway/Denshawai - wiki entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denshawai_Incident

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

More google: viii) is Prince Ahmad Rifaat Pasha, whose train fell off a car float on the Nile in 1858:

[sbp.livejournal.com]

ii) In 1892 Kitchener was in charge of the Egyptian Army.

Elephantine is an island near Aswan, called that because of its shape. It was known as Abu or Yebu to the ancient Egyptians, a defensive position on the border of Nubia.

Kitchener is the (not current) name of the island just to the west of Elephantine, now called Elnabatat's Island.

"Kitchener's Island is one of two major islands on the Nile in vicinity of Aswan, the other one being Elephantine. Elephantine is much larger than Kitchener's Island and located between Kitchener's Island and the city of Aswan"

"The island was given to Lord Kitchener as a reward for his services in the Sudan Campaign (1896–1898)"

So the answer is "on the Nile near Aswan, Egypt".

(wikipedia)

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Kat got ix)